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Claustrophobic Photos Go Inside Manila's Traffic Nightmare, WIRED

The greater Manila metropolitan area has 22.9 million people, 2.5 million cars, and not nearly enough roads. It has, by some measures, the worst traffic in the world.

Getting anywhere is a nightmare. It's hot. It's cramped. It's chaotic. Lawrence Sumulong throws you into the middle of it with his series Bottleneck. Seeing the insanity through a fisheye lens makes an unbearable commute downright claustrophobic. It gives you a visceral sense of what it's like to spend two hours moving travel three miles.